Managing single tracks displayed as albums

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Managing single tracks displayed as albums

Hi
I guess that like everyone, I have a heap of albums in iTunes - but also have a lot of singles.
I just find it misleading that the singles display as albums with one track, and I'm wondering if there is a way to control this. I know I can probably create a fictitious album (like "My Singles Bin") and assign all the single tracks on it - but I don't really want to lose the original album name from the single's metadata.

Is there a way to tell iTunes not to display a single as an album?
(Hope I'm making myself clear! :-)

Cheers

Posted on Jul 18, 2015 8:36 AM

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hhgttg27

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Jul 18, 2015 9:29 AM in response to griffin51

There's no built-in way to do this - iTunes works on the principle that every song is part of exactly one album. You can, though, use playlists to partition your library between albums and singles:

create a regular playlist called "Singles"
add all the songs that you classify as singles to this playlist
create a smart playlist called "Albums", with the following rules:
- Playlist is Music
- Playlist is not Singles

The "Albums" playlist will then show only the content of your library that you don't classify as singles.

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Jul 28, 2015 5:32 AM in response to hhgttg27

Thanks mate, sorry for the delayed thanks but I'm at the age where you ask a question and then not only forget that you asked it - but also where you asked it.
Need a bag of breadcrumbs ... sigh ....

It's a good solution in the absence of a config setting.

cheers

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hhgttg27

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Jul 28, 2015 5:57 AM in response to griffin51

You're welcome!

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